Policy agendas and births and deaths of political parties

Lowery, David; Witteloostuijn, A. van; Péli, Gábor; Brasher, Holly; Otjes, Simon; Gherghina, Sergiu

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“…On the other hand, the number of dimensions affects the opportunities to build a distinctive policy profile. Having more (fewer) issues increases (reduces) the possibilities for policy differentiation [9,39]. Likewise, when more (less) extreme positions are created regarding an existing issue, more (less) possibilities for a distinguishable positioning emerge [62].…”

Section: Political Niche Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…are positively correlated [37,39,56]. Here, the argument is that if the number d The direction of the effect is also important: a shock may either disrupt or reinforce a political trend.…”

Section: (Iii) the Number Of Parties And The Number Of Issue/dimensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fundamental niche can be understood as the demand for political representation that a group of voters has, considering a set of issues [39]. Then, the political party is the organization that tries to satisfy such a demand, which can be represented by a location in the n-dimensional issue space.…”

Section: Political Spaces Dimensionality Decline and Party Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lowery and colleagues [39] for the Netherlands and Stoll [56] for several European countries, show that the number of political parties can be explained by the number of relevant issues in a political system (i.e., issue agenda space). The larger the issue agenda space is, the higher the chances that new political parties can develop a distinctive issue configuration that attracts enough voters to survive, and vice versa.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is due to the fact that issue-driven dynamics has been a missing factor in those models. In such a setting, parties need to differentiate themselves to attract a sufficient number of voters to survive [39]. Traditionally, political parties differentiate from others attracting voters based on religious, social and ethnic motivations -i.e., social cleavages.…”

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confidence: 99%

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We built a computational model of political party competition in order to gain insight into the effect of the decrease in the number of relevant political issues (dimensions), and the change of their relative importance, on the number of surviving political parties, their strategy performance, and the degree of political party fragmentation. Particularly, we find that when there is a dimensionality reduction (i.e., a change from a two-dimensional issue space to a one-dimensional one, or, a substantial decrement in one of the issue's relative importance with respect to the other), the number of political parties declines, as does the overall degree of party fragmentation in the system. Regarding party strategies, we observe that, after the dimensionality reduction, (i) the inert parties tend to improve their performance in terms of party numbers (i.e., more inert parties survive, relatively * Corresponding author. C. García-Díaz, G. Zambrana-Cruz and A. van Witteloostuijn speaking); (ii) the population of large-size seekers declines, (iii) the few large-size seeker survivors, in general, cushion their increased mortality hazard with increased size (i.e., increased number of supporters); and, finally, (iv) the mortality hazard increases with distance to the mean voter spot.

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Section: Political Niche Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…are positively correlated [37,39,56]. Here, the argument is that if the number d The direction of the effect is also important: a shock may either disrupt or reinforce a political trend.…”

Section: (Iii) the Number Of Parties And The Number Of Issue/dimensmentioning

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This paper studies how increasing dimensionality in a market space feeds into the emergence of a sustainable entrepreneurial population-energy cooperatives in Germany. Our theoretical model conceptualizes the market as a multi-dimensional feature space and offers insights as to when and where new types of entrepreneurial activities emerge. We demonstrate that (1) the rise of a socio-cognitive dimension greenness created novel social demand and opened opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship and (2) sustainable entrepreneurial organizations are more likely to be founded in communities with higher local demand for greenness. Our paper contributes to research on entrepreneurial population emergence and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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The organizational ecology of ethnic cleavages: The nonlinear effects of ethnic diversity on party system fragmentation

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This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Electoral Studies. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Electoral Studies, [VOL 37, March 2015] doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014 General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. AbstractThe conventional wisdom regarding party system fragmentation assumes that the effects of electoral systems and social cleavages are linear. However, recent work applying organizational ecology theories to the study of party systems has challenged the degree to which electoral system effects are linear. This paper applies such concepts to the study of social cleavages. Drawing from theories of organizational ecology and the experience of many ethnically diverse African party systems, I argue that the effects of ethnic diversity are nonlinear, with party system fragmentation increasing until reaching moderate levels of diversity before declining as diversity reaches extreme values. Examining this argument cross-nationally, the results show that accounting for nonlinearity in ethnic diversity effects significantly improves model fit.1

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Policy agendas and births and deaths of political parties

Cited by 32 publications

References 42 publications

Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach

The organizational ecology of ethnic cleavages: The nonlinear effects of ethnic diversity on party system fragmentation

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